El Gusto, l’orchestre d’Alger
https://amf.didiermary.fr/el-gusto-chaabi-algiers-alger/
El Gusto est le nom de ce groupe fondé dans la casbah d’Alger “il y a très très longtemps.” La guerre, puis l’indépendance dans les années 60, ont séparé les musiciens.
Ce documentaire (El Gusto – Casbah Blues), sorti en 2012, montre le cheminement de leurs retrouvailles au nom de la musique Chaâbi. La bonne […]
Nalbandian The Ethiopian
https://amf.didiermary.fr/nalbandian-ethiopian-ethiopiques-32/
“Nalbandian The Ethiopian, Either/Orchestra and Guests” is the second album (Ethiopiques 32) coming out from the “relaunch” of the Ethiopiques series, released last december. It follows “Muluken Mellesse With The Dahlak Band” (Ethiopiques 31).
Encyclopedie d’Assiko – Olivier Declovis Bonga
https://amf.didiermary.fr/encyclopedie-assiko-olivier-declovis-bonga/
Olivier Declovis Bonga live with dancers (athletes?) at the Festival of Traditional Music & Dance in Limbe, Cameroon.
I met Olivier the last time I was in Douala. Now that Jean Bikoko Aladin is gone, he’s the new King of Assiko.
This is traditional music and dance from the Douala region, from the Bassa people.There […]
Letta Mbulu & Caiphus Semenya – Ziphi’Nkomo
https://amf.didiermary.fr/letta-mbulu-caiphus-semenya/
Caiphus Semenya is a South African composer and musician. He left South Africa for Los Angeles in the 60s, together with his wife, singer Letta Mbulu.
Listen to "Oluwa (Many Rains Ago)" sung by Letta Mbulu, composed by Caiphus Semenya and the late Quincy Jones, from the 1976 ABC mini-series soundtrack "Roots."
Miriam Makeba Zaire 74
https://amf.didiermary.fr/miriam-makeba-zaire-74/
Yes, she was part of the event, performing the famous Click Song (Qongqothwane). [...]
#70smusic #Congo #LiveMusic #MiriamMakeba #SoulPower #SouthAfrica #OldAfricanMusic
Gilles Gnonnas – La musica en vérité (2013)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/gilles-gnonnas-musica-verite/
Gilles Gnonnas singing “La musica en vérité”, a song by his father Gnonnas Pedro, in Cotonou in 2013 (@ CCF).
An awesome Afro Latin track with deep lyrics from the Beninese King of African Salsa, Gnonnan Sossou Pierre Kouassivi, better known as Gnonnas Pedro. […]
The Thomas House, Dublin is no longer accepting AI band posters. Good move!
It's got massive support from local artists offering to help bands who need work done, too 🙂
John Chibadura & Tembo Brothers
https://amf.didiermary.fr/john-chibadura-tembo-brothers/
John Chibadura (1957–1999) was a Zimbabwean guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He found great success in Zimbabwe and Mozambique with his band The Tembo Brothers and as a solo artist.
Keziah Jones – African Space Craft
https://amf.didiermary.fr/keziah-jones-african-space-craft/
African Space Craft is an album by Keziah Jones, released in 1995.
Kélétigui & ses Tambourinis – Temedi (live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/keletigui-tambourinis-temedi/
That’s “Chuck Berry” on vocals, Talibé Traoré on lead trumpet, Momo Wandel on alto sax, Kélétigui Traoré on tenor and Linké Condé on guitar (left of stage).
Keletigui et ses Tambourinis was a dance music orchestra founded in Conakry by the government of the newly independent state of Guinea. They were one of the most […]
Mehdi Qamoum – Ana W Ana (Live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mehdi-qamoum-ana-w-ana/
Mehdi Qamoum is a versatile composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Agadir. A traditional gnawa musician, Mehdi has mastered numerous folk instruments including guembri, outar, karbaou, bendir and a custom guembri four-string electric bass which he built himself. [...]
Gnawa Soul
https://amf.didiermary.fr/moktar-gania-gnawa-soul/
Moktar Gania & Gnawa Soul in “Rabi Laafou”, a song to celebrate the city of Essaouira (Morocco), from the fortress of the Gnawas where they have their one and only sacred place left in Morocco, The Zaouia Sidna Bilal. This traditional ballad is a tribute to the past Gnawa Maalem (Masters). […]
Group Theory Black Music
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tumi-mogorosi-group-theory-black-music/
“The Group Theory Black Music” documentary follows the creative process, and intentions between drummer Tumi Mogorosi and the many collaborators on the album.
Since his international debut on Jazzman Records in 2014 with Project ELO, Mogorosi has been in the vanguard of the South African creative music scene’s burgeoning outernational dimension, [...]
Maravillas de Mali – Rendez-vous chez Fatimata
https://amf.didiermary.fr/maravillas-mali-rendez-vous-fatimata/
“Rendez-vous chez Fatimata” est la signature d’une lointaine époque musicale, ancrée dans le Danzón (l’un des rythmes au tempo lent, qui s’interconnecte au Son Cubano) avec bien sûr des éléments de rythmes maliens.
Avec ce groupe mythique des années 60, c’est toute une nouvelle génération de musiciens qui montait sur scène. [...]
Danyèl Waro – Mandela (live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/danyel-waro-mandela/
Danyel Waro (Daniel Hoareau – May 1955) was born and raised at the Ile de la Réunion, a French territory in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar. He is the most renowned proponent of the Maloya, a compound rhythm which had its origin in chants of enslaved workers on the sugar cane plantations, a […]
Femi Kuti – As We Struggle Everyday (Edit)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/femi-kuti-struggle-everyday/
“As We Struggle Everyday” is taken from the album Legacy +, that includes a full album by Femi (Stop The Hate) and one by his son Made, titled For(e)ward.
Legendary activist and Afrobeat originator, Fela Kuti, used his music to lament social injustices and political corruption in his native Nigeria. Fela’s legacy spans decades and […]
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King Ayisoba – Wicked Leaders
https://amf.didiermary.fr/king-ayisoba-wicked-leaders/
Wicked Leaders… African politicians beware! King Ayisoba is out there…
Kologo music from Ghana, North East Region, mainly in Frafra and in English, highly catchy that moves your soul as well as your feet.
Ibibio Sound Machine live
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ibibio-sound-machine-live/
Fronted by London-born Nigerian singer Eno Williams, Ibibio Sound Machine is a clash of African and electronic elements inspired in equal measure by the golden era of West-African funk & disco and modern post-punk & electro.
Weird and wonderful folk stories, recounted to Eno by her family as a child in her mother’s Ibibio tongue, […]
Dawda Jobarteh & Toumani Diabaté – Tabara
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dawda-jobarteh-toumani-diabate-tabara/
This is pure traditional Kora playing by Dawda Jobarteh & Toumani Diabaté.
The kora is a stringed instrument used extensively in West Africa. A kora typically has 21 strings, which are played by plucking with the fingers. It combines features of the lute and harp.
In the late 20th century, a 24/5-string model of the kora […]
Swede Lokole – Bana Swede
https://amf.didiermary.fr/swede-lokole-bana-swede/
Festive, mainly acoustic, music from Congolese artists who lived in Côte d’Ivoire, as there was a civil war in their country. The cassettes, and later records, released by Swede Lokole were in fact a way for the band to show what they could offer on stage as a live band.
They trained themselves where they […]
Roger Damawuzan & Les As du Benin
https://amf.didiermary.fr/roger-damawuzan-les-as-du-benin/
Nine unreleased and rare tracks from the amazing Roger Damawuzan also known as the “James Brown from Lomé”, backed by the tremendous “Les As du Benin” orchestra, and recorded between 1972 and 1981.
Born in 1952 in Aneho (Togo), “The king of Gazo” (a traditional rhythm) is one of the most popular singer of his […]
Dibango 82 (live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/dibango-82-live/
“Dibango 82” an unreleased live recording by Manu Dibango, taped in Marseilles, Dec 1982 and remastered with INA‘s help. [INA is the acronym of Institut national de l’audiovisuel, a repository of all French radio and television audiovisual archives.]
The electrifying live performance features the African legend alongside his stellar 8-piece group, blending funk, jazz, and […]
Bitori – Legend Of Funaná
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bitori-legend-of-funana/
In 1997, a quiet, unassuming man of 59 years old named Victor Tavares – better known as Bitori – walks into a studio for the very first time to record a masterpiece which many Cabo Verdean consider to be the best Funaná album ever made.
The album “Bitori // Legend Of Funaná – The Forbidden […]
Amazones de Guinée – Live at La Paillote
https://amf.didiermary.fr/live-paillote-amazones-guinee/
The band Les Amazones de Guinée played at an event at La Paillote, to celebrate the completion of The British Library Endangered Archives Programme in 2013.
“The Endangered Archives Programme captures forgotten and still not written histories, often suppressed or marginalised. […]
